Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-05
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Saxony correspondence notes at Dofman 5.
 Mrs. Richard Dennis, of Wallingford, died yesterday at the hospital of apoplexy.
 Trailing arbutus is arriving in town from "up country" in considerable quantities.
 The Grays' bean bake and reunion, to which all ex-Grays are invited, takes place this eve ming.
 From thirty to fifty dog owners drop in at dogs.
 Theron L. Foote of Lee, Mass, has bought the Savin cottage which Coroner Mix occu- pied last summer.
 The striking carpenters met again yester- day in Boardman building. They talk still of cooperative scheme.
 Mrs. Catharine R., wife of Uncle Harry Curtis of Stratford, died Tuesday, aged S3. She was highly esteemed.
 High Rock Grove will not be opened until June 10, when St. Margaret's school of Wa terbury will picnic there.
 MT. William Fuller of Howard avenue, an ex-member of the road department, will start Friday for Florida to improve his health.
 The annual meeting of the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical society will be held in this city May F at the New Haven House.
 Out of family of six at Cedar Hill the mother and four of the children were sick with the measles at one time a day or two ago.
 Charles H. Fowler will speak at the tenn perance meeting of the Good Samaritans in Loomis' Temple of Music next Sunday eve- ming.
 John Amsbrutz of Huntington Center, who used dynamite to kill trout, was fined $7 and costs yesterday and sent to jail for thirty days.
 Real estate auction sale at North Quinni- piac street this morning at 10 o'clock. See advertisement of Edward 0. Beecher, auc- tioneer, in this paper.
 Mir. Charles F. Merwin, foreman for Hub bell, Merwin & Co.,, who has been confined to the house for month owing to severe at tack of erysipelas, isconvalescent.
 Messrs. George W. Adams, W. A. Main, George W. Warner, George c. Pettis, the Hill Brothers and G. W. L. Benedict will build cottages at Savin Rock this summer.
 John W. Bowen, of Bridgeport, has pur- chased from New Haven parties the sloop
 
 making other alterations will use her for pleasure yacht.
 The family of Professor F. M. Whipple, of Mystic, long the owner of the Whipple school, start for San Francisco this week. Prosessor Whipple is teaching in the State school of California.
 MT. Nelson E. Barker has opened an office so l, oi4 i4x,f for fho o1o If loans and local securities, and offers as speciality the mortgage securities negotiated by the Lombard Investment Go. of Boston, Mass.
 MT. George E. Bissell of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, has completed the portrait statue of Col. John L. Chat6eld, of the Sixth Connecticut regiment, which is to be erected by the mem- bers of that command in honor of their old leader.
 The Plumbers union indignantly deny the rumor that any of the striking members of that organization had hand in the destruc- tion of plumbing work in the two new houses that J. N. Leonard & Co. are building in Bradley street.
 Parents are delighted with the splendid stock of children's straw hats at Burgess & Burgess old established and well known store. The stock is a complete and varied one, embracing all kinds to suit all the peo- pie and various varieties that can be found nowhere else in town.
 MT. Thomas R. Trowbridge was much bet ter yesterday and the public will rejoice to learn that such is the improvement in his case and the favorable symptoms that mem bers of the family now entertain good hopes that he will be able to sit up again ere long. He was better yesterday than at any time for @ month past. MT. Caleb L. Ludingtop, one of Fair Ha- ven's prominent and most highly esteemed oyster dealers, will build two or three sum- mer cottages this summer on his land front ing Long Island Sound, between the old lighthouse and Short Beach. On the same shore front the Ludington firm has a watch house where two men are employed watching the oyster beds of the firm out in the Sound.